Chapter Six: Ten Years Later…
"Yay, we're in Ithaca! Can we look for a Saks Fifth Avenue?" Michael exclaimed when we got off the boat. I groaned at him in response. It took ten years just to get to Ithaca, and all I wanted to do was find someone for hospitality. We couldn't just go home after taking so long to get to this Greek place. I mean, come on!
"No, Michael. We're going to find someone and get hospitality for a few days," I said, walking at the same time. All of a sudden, a lady came walking up to us, her dress dragging along the ground. I wanted to tell her to pick up her skirt, but then I saw that it wasn't getting stained with dirt. That was when I realized what was happening. We were watching a goddess walk around on the plain old Earth.
"Do not be alarmed, mortals! For I am Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom," she said, flashing a big smile. Michael and I looked at each other, our eyes saying one thing: It's the real deal.
"What do you need, Athena? Everything all right?" I asked. See, it was really convincing that she was a goddess. Why else would her dress be completely unstained while dragging it across earth?
"I see you getting hospitality at Odysseus' humble abode down south. However, there are suitors courting his lovely wife, Penelope. They can only do so much to try and ward them off. Telemachus can't do anything about it. That's why you two will show up at their castle door. However, Penelope will not do with young adults. Teenagers trigger her soft spot, so you two will go as your teenage selves," the beautiful goddess responded. Wait a minute. Suitors? Didn't Odysseus kill them all already? Then again, they could be a different group of suitors. I sighed at that thought. Maybe we did have to take care of those suitors for sure.
"All right, then. We'll do it."